delighted - Story 24160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was stuck in traffic, listening to a dull podcast, when the email notification chimed. He glanced at the screen, and his jaw dropped. Interview! He laughed aloud, a genuine burst of mirth.

He felt a sudden surge of adrenaline. He started tapping his fingers against the steering wheel, a silly grin plastered on his face. He felt confident and eager.

He couldn't wait to call his friend. He imagined the same reaction, the same thrill of anticipation. The traffic suddenly seemed less awful.

Emotion: delighted

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.80 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.26

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion delighted. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 delighted stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the delighted emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the delighted vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`!`	0.611
`🤩`	0.536
`de`	0.530
`ecstatic`	0.527
`🎉`	0.524

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.687
`😞`	-0.562
`ness`	-0.471
`😔`	-0.385
`😥`	-0.379